Birgitta Flick is an improviser, composer and artistic researcher from Berlin. Educated as saxophonist at Jazz-Institut Berlin (UdK/HfM “Hanns Eisler”, BA) and in composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (MA), she works internationally as a freelance musician with her own groups based in Berlin, Stockholm and New York City and collaborates as a composer with ensembles such as LUX:NM (DE) or choirs such as VoNo (SE, cond. Lone Larsen), Musa Horti (BE, cond. Peter Dejans) or the youth choir of Berlin’s Staatsoper (DE, cond. Konstanze Löwe).
Her artistic work is documented through an extensive discography, a choir edition by Gehrmans förlag in the series #swedishchoralmusic and has been supported by institutions and organizations such as the Berlin senate, German Musikfonds, JazzBaltica Förderpreis and the Goethe institute.
With a great interest in interdisciplinary work, she developed with Milana Novčić, Nina Perovic and Thomas van Walle the audiovisual performance Reconnecting (with) Traces for the Moderna Galerija, Muzeji i galerije Podgorice, Montenegro, in 2023. She also explores the relations between sound and movement within projects such as the Berlin-based improvisation lab by GlädjeCollective with dancers Oktavia Zoë Vöhringer, Cecilia Nuria Gil Mariño and Lucía Rosso between 2020-2021 or in the new trio with Vienna-based artists Sylvia Bruckner (piano) and Christa Stöffelbauer (dance).
From 2015-2023, Birgitta Flick served as artistic director for the concert series InSpirit at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche in Berlin.
In June 2025, she received the German Jazz Prize 2025 in the category Composition/Arrangement of the Year for her work within the collaborative piece PlanetWoman, created together with the vocal ensemble VoNo and Lone Larsen to Zsuzsanna Ardó’s poem of the same name.
In November 2025, she completed her artistic doctoral research project “Refiguring composition” at mdw, Vienna. The results of her research in a composition’s transformation through its contact with improvisation and the “outside” world have been presented at e.g. the AEC European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM) 2023 in Copenhagen and 2024 in Ljubljana, or the Forum Artistic Research at GMPU Klagenfurt (2024).
Birgitta Flick also is a sought-after pedagogue for subjects related to saxophone, improvisation, composition, music theory and ensemble playing on beginner’s, intermediate and professional level. Her teaching experience ranges from regular freelance teaching and workshops at communal music schools such as Musikschule CityWest in Berlin (since 2015) to academic guest lectures or workshops at academic institutions such as the music department at Hunter College in New York City or HfMT Rostock.
Furthermore, Birgitta Flick is profoundly skilled in transcribing music and in engraving music. More information and work samples on request.
Birgitta Flick is a member of IMPRA (Sweden).
Listen to Birgitta Flick‘s music on the individual project websites, the “Music&Media” page or on:
www.soundcloud.com/birgittaflick
Releases & publications:
as saxophonist/composer:
Hesamizadeh|Hoppe|Flick “Live in Berlin”, Spektral Raumohr 2024 (Bandcamp release)
Birgitta Flick & Antje Rößeler “Sending a Phoenix” (wismART)
Birgitta Flick Quartet “Miniatures & Fragments” (Double Moon Records/Challenge)
Carol Liebowitz / Birgitta Flick Duo “Malita-Malika” (Leo Records)
Birgitta Flick Quartet “Color Studies” (Double Moon Records/Challenge)
Birgitta Flick Quartet feat. Lina Nyberg Nico Lohmann Silke Eberhard “Dalarna“ (Double Moon Records)
“Den signade dag” from “Dalarna” on “Lira: Lyssna. Ljudspår till #3 2016” (Lira, SE 2016)
Birgitta Flick Quartet “Yingying“ (Double Moon Records / “Jazz thing Next Generation“)
Flickstick “Hymn“ (WismART)
as saxophonist:
Nico Lohmann Quintett “Jazz it is” (AJazz)
Agustin Strizzi 5t “Vol. 2” (EP)
Antje Rößeler “Love’s Darknesses” (GAM Music, guest musician)
Pål Nyberg “Lowlands” (AMP Music & Records)
Antje Rößeler “Stockholm Trio (WismART, guest musician and composer)
Cajsa Zerhouni “Estuary” (DoMusic)
Uwe Steinmetz “In Spirit” (EJK Records)
Agustin Strizzi “P*g r o o v e Vol. 1” (electronic release)
Esther Kaiser “Songs of Courage” (GLM)
guest musician for the songs “Open your Eyes” and “Revolution”
Cantor Aviv Weinberg & Z’lil schel bet haskala, Jazz goes Synagogue (primTON)
Elias Gottstein “VR_Lust” (LP)
guest musician for the song “Tier”
Lewin-Landgren-Björänge Trio “It‘s Freedom“, live at Memorial Church, Berlin (EJK Records)
guest musician for the song “Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich“
Nico Lohmann Quintett “Merging Circles“ (UNIT Records)
Nico Lohmann Quintett “Miraculum“ (UNIT Records)
Robert Keßler Go·ya “Yasmin“ (yvp music)
Christof Griese’s JayJayBeCe “20 Jahre JayJayBeCe“ (BIT)
Berliner Jugendjazzorchester “Berlin – Los Angeles“ (Phonector)
Guest Composition:
25 years JayJayBeCe – live at Schlot (Bellheim) (“Yingying“)
Published Scores:
Nocturne (Gehrmans Musikförlag)
Music Engraving:
Andreas Schmidt “slow motion emotion“ (NRW)
Transcriptions for:
Musik für Saxophonquartett [Vol. 1] (BIT)
Text—Academic text/Artistic research:
Flick, Birgitta (2025). “The Enchanted Forest: exploring the development of relations in artistic collaborations that combine individual and collective creative practices (in preparation)”. In:
Proceedings of the 1st symposium Forum Artistic Research: listen for beginnings. Ed. by Hanns Holger Rutz. Research Catalogue. https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3877431 (visited on 12/01/2025)
Flick, Birgitta (2020). Du har lärt mig att lyssna: En undersökning av genomsläpplighet i komposition. Master’s thesis. Stockholm: KMH. url: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-3500 (visited on 12/01/2025).
Flick, Birgitta & Hanno Depner (2016). „Zur Macht des Augenblicks: Fünf Kompositionen und ihre Aufführungspraxis.“ In: Macht und Reflexion: Deutsches Jahrbuch Philosophie. Band 6, 77-80, 143-144, 199-201, 249-252, 319-321, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag.
Text—Liner notes:
Stefan Münzer Trio, Utopia, WismART 2024 (Language: English/German)
Mischa Schumann Trio, Move Change Resolve, WismART 2025 (Language: German)